Magical Scroll Case

After some relaxing, the Seekers of Knowledge received a gift from an anonymous person. The gift was a magical scroll case that had 12 gemstones on it. The Seekers were a bit shocked at the elegance of the scroll case as they knew it was very expensive.

There was a catch with it. They had no idea how to open it. As they looked over the scroll case with amazement, suddenly a magic mouth appeared before them and said, "The code to open this scroll case is hidden within the stones; you must press each stone in the proper order to open it." The magic faded out.

The stones are in this order on the scroll case: Turquoise, Diamond, Opal, Aquamarine, Topaz, Emerald, Moonstone, Garnet, Sapphire, Amethyst, Ruby, Peridot.

Answer

After some thought, they knew how to open the scroll case.
They pressed the stones in this order: Garnet, Amethyst, Aquamarine, Diamond, Emerald, Moonstone, Ruby, Peridot, Sapphire, Opal, Topaz, Turquoise.

They are all birthstones, and in the order of the months: January, February, March and so on.

Comments

Great, Sunrose. This was hard, but very enjoyable. I got lazy and looked at the hint and should have realized they were birthstones as I have tried to give each of 19 grandkids something with their birthstone in it. Excellent job.

The minute I saw that there were 12 gems I figured the months were represented. Since there was no stone beginning with a J it stood to reason that they must be the birthstones. Since I didn't know them in order I couldn't come up with the correct answer, but I was too lazy to look them up,so I guess I failed. But that was a great quiz.

Not so easy, when one is aware that there are at least 4 listings of monthly gemstones, the Traditional, the Modern, and the Mystical, and the Ayurvedic. Traditionally, the gemstone for March is either Bloodstone or Jasper, and the gemstone for July is Turquoise or Onyx. This is one of those puzzles for which, the more you know, the harder the puzzle is going to be.

That was an easy one to figure out. However not everyone knows what order they are in and would have to look it all up if the wanted to actually put them in order. Just knowing the answer was enough for me. Cute, but long story yet fun teaser.

I too knew they were birthstones and although I have my late grandmother's family ring, we have purchased my mother both a family ring and a "Grandmoter's necklace, sadly I don't know the stones for any month other than March (my own birth month).

I have only been on the site for 2 months ago and wonder why so many of the Daily Teasers and Quizzes seem to be 10 years old or better?
This teaser was GAF and I give it a rating of 5+ on the BARNUM scale.

This puzzle is complicated by the fact that what birthstone goes with which month depends on the historical age (pre-20th century birthstone assignments differ in some respects from post-20th century birthstone assignments), and also on the cultural community involved (British birthstone assignments differ somewhat from American birthstone assignments).